Is there something that can put a lid on sexual urges other than castration? I don’t think so. But top Hollywood celebrities like Tiger Woods, David Duchovy and now Jesse James (husband of estranged wife Sandra Bullock) or their PR is making everyone believe that checking in on a sex rehab offers a lasting solution to behavior problems.
Personally I think submitting to a sexual rehab is their their way of showing to the world and to their wife their so-called remorse for their cheating. An expensive way to show their remorse at that and whoever is running such a business in Hollywood right now is making a run on their money.
According to a Time Magazine article, “Sex addiction is marked not simply by poor decision-making in the face of temptation, but also by a sense of powerlessness before one’s own compulsive behavior. There are many types of sex addicts, including so-called sexual anorexics who avoid physical intimacy with their partner and seek it out in fantasies or with others. ”
For the amusement of it I looked into what is a sex rehab and happens in there.
I like how Mark Morford worded this so I’ll just quote him. He described a sex rehab as a place:
very helpful and necessary for many lost and desperate (mostly male) souls, yearning to break free from the need for far more dumb, sloppy blowjobs in the workplace. It’s apparently the place to go to learn that sex is more than merely a shallow, insta-gratifying Roman candle of mindblowing, all-consuming awesomeness that makes Jesus weep, galaxies swoon and the stars drip raw honey down their thighs. Well, not exclusively.
… like any unfortunate addiction in America, from booze to cocaine, food to fundamentalist Christianity, the actual success/recovery rate is, well, fairly dismal. A fraction. Between two and 10 percent, depending on whom you talk to, what you’re wearing and how much Velcro it has right around the crotch.
Verily, sex rehab is not about halting all sexual activity forever. It’s just about trying to prevent you from having really lame, stupid sex with people you are not legally, ethically, religiously or co-dependently bound to have sex with, whether you want to or not.
Most of the sex rehab patients/participants are male, but didn’t we all know that the other side of the species is tuned in to the physical so whats new with that. We all know that men are far lamer at controlling their urges and are more likely to get caught. A female who is a sex addict is very uncommon.
There is also a scientific study that shows that the various synapses and networks of the male brain that control the sex drive are 2.5 times larger than that of the female.
Rehabilitation normally last for 30 days to months depending on some circumstances (I have no idea what kind of!)
They are not restrained from having sex in there or taught that sex is bad but it is a place where a person is being taught to take responsibility for his or her actions. It is a place where a person is taught how to control his urges or how to deal with his feelings of loneliness and need.
But before these behavior problems are addressed a patient/ participant needs to admit to himself that his behavior is not normal.
